When on this side of the pond we find out that there is a Nacional – Peñarol on the weekend, we soccer fans pay attention. The main attraction, let’s face it, is not football or goals. The Uruguayan classic surprises in another way: kicking, hard play, and usually some general brawl that ends with several ejections per side.
Lolo Estoyanoff dedicating his goal to Morro GarcÃa, with Peñarol, to Boston River.
The same thing happened in a “friendly” match. between bags and charcoal makers at the beginning of 2014. An iron at the level of the stomach (and lower down as well) and total lack of control: kicks and clean pineapples in an all against all that had two main protagonists. They are Santiago GarcÃa, who died this Saturday, and Fabián Estoyanoff, a historic Manya footballer. Between the two of them they shared a lot and, along with other colleagues, they were obviously expelled.
But it didn’t stop there. It is such a pitched battle that both players ended up in prisonIn addition, they could not return to a playing field for two months. And to the Morro and to the Lolo they had nothing less than to share a dungeon. Beyond some black eye, the pike remained on the court and in that week they shared they forged a beautiful relationship.
Estoyanoff scored this Sunday in Peñarol’s victory over Boston River and, without distinction of shirts, pointed to the sky to dedicate it to his old jailer friend. “Today was a day with many emotions, when I got up to find out about the death of Morro GarcÃa. A person who, on different occasions, has had to be together in a dungeon “, the former Valencia midfielder began in dialogue with the official club press.
The man who knew how to go through the national team gave more details of that moment: “We were together for almost seven or eight days and locked in a two-by-two room. We talked a lot about life, many things, imagine 24 hours for seven days”. He also revealed the request he made to his colleagues: “The news invaded me with sadness, so I asked my colleagues to wear a bracelet in honor of him today”. A beautiful gesture from Estoyanoff.